For The Music Productions Presents:

Optic Oppression's long awaited debut show!
w/ Kali Ra, Garda, & BlurrAngels

Friday, June 19th
$10.00 pre-sale, $15.00 day of show
All Ages (under 18 should be accompanied by a guardian)
Doors open at 8:00pm

For tickets call: (716) 831-3271
Or order online at: http://mapleentertainment.com/show.cfm?id=196348

at: The Forvm
Maple Ridge Plaza
4224 Maple Rd. @ Sweet Home
Buffalo, NY 14226

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“This next album is designed to break some necks, whether dancing or headbanging,” says Optic Oppression’s frontman, Kendall Cage. But that’s not all the band has in store for their fans.

Out of western NY, Optic Oppression is a synth-rock phenomenon in it's infancy. Born from the culmination of the band’s twisted childhood traumas, incarcerations and abuse Optic is about the human evolution – not just of ourselves but of society - and emerging from the struggle scarred, but stronger than ever. With dark bass lines, driving beats, and a taste for musical circuitry Optic Oppression is now poised to turn heads and reshape the music scene.

Optic’s newest release, Find A Way, is the band’s first conceptual EP. Splicing deranged audio samples together with rock guitars and throwing it over a hard rhythmic backbone with a touch of EDM, the band brings to life the sordid stories felt by so many but spoken by so few.

From it's inception Optic Oppression’s music was made to break up the monotony of the western New York rock scene. After the untimely and violent death of their guitarist the remaining members of the renouned hard rock band, 86 To Nowhere, fell into a brief hiatus. Unable to find an adequate replacement guitarist it soon became apparent that the band had met it’s end and a new band had to be formed from its ashes. Lead singer Kendall Cage, bassist Tron Bastian and drummer Kyle Johnson then set out with a vision to find a guitarist for a new, more innovative sound. When they met multi-instrumentalists, Mike Novo and Greg Burt, the sparks ignited and the music began to take on a life of its own.

On the forfront of musical evolution, Optic Oppression wields production as an instrument in itself. Combining influences ranging from Stabbing Westward to Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park to Orgy, Optic Oppression walks the now shattered line between the analog and digital worlds. With a dark electronic writing style that has been described as "innovative" and "more than industrial", Optic Oppression’s new EP, Find A Way, seeks to grasp the cutting-edge and carve out a niche of it's own in a musical world where it seems everything has been done before.

www.OpticOppression.com